carolinajazz
Well-Known Member
...bring a baseball bat to the game and smack him with it! Oh, wait! That's what Nick Van Excel said you had to do to stop Stockton and Malone!
On a serious note....you need to do TWO things to slow him down, control and sometimes stop him from slapping knots on your head faster than you can rub them! 1) You have to have a player on your team that is willing to "bust his case" to deny him the ball for all 48 minutes (or whenever he's on the court)! Why? Because when he gets the ball, he's almost impossible to stop! He's gonna get off a good shot, probably a great shot....or set up a teammate for a wide open shot! If you can find a dedicated player who is willing to follow him around the court from the time GS in-bounds the ball, trying to keep him from touching the ball....your halfway home! Problem with that "excellent" strategy is hardly anyone in today's NBA wants to play ball-denial on defense 48 minutes a game! The other draw back, but not nearly so bad, is your ball-denial player is going to be subject to constant picks and screens and backdoor plays. However, the alternative is Curry hitting 7 three pointers on you and getting 10 assists when he's not shooting them! 2) You MUST make Curry play defense when he's on the court, either by running plays for his man, making him the focal point of your offense....posting him low or whatever he excels in... making Curry play DEFENSE! Other than that....I'm out of ideas!
On a serious note....you need to do TWO things to slow him down, control and sometimes stop him from slapping knots on your head faster than you can rub them! 1) You have to have a player on your team that is willing to "bust his case" to deny him the ball for all 48 minutes (or whenever he's on the court)! Why? Because when he gets the ball, he's almost impossible to stop! He's gonna get off a good shot, probably a great shot....or set up a teammate for a wide open shot! If you can find a dedicated player who is willing to follow him around the court from the time GS in-bounds the ball, trying to keep him from touching the ball....your halfway home! Problem with that "excellent" strategy is hardly anyone in today's NBA wants to play ball-denial on defense 48 minutes a game! The other draw back, but not nearly so bad, is your ball-denial player is going to be subject to constant picks and screens and backdoor plays. However, the alternative is Curry hitting 7 three pointers on you and getting 10 assists when he's not shooting them! 2) You MUST make Curry play defense when he's on the court, either by running plays for his man, making him the focal point of your offense....posting him low or whatever he excels in... making Curry play DEFENSE! Other than that....I'm out of ideas!
